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Morning algebra

Morning breakfast with friends + eating like a decent person = ending up hungry Being hungry + French pastry cafe down the street = chocolate croissant Chocolate croissant + driving + no napkins =

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Got the movers, and the truck

Me: at what time are the movers getting here to load our stuff in the truck? (which we’re renting and driving to Texas) Wife: at 8am. Me:  At what time are we picking up the truck in San Mateo? Wife: at 8am.   Oops.

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Early Dementia?

The garage door person was coming over to give us an estimate, so I went to get my car keys to move my car across the street before he came over.  It took me walking a couple of rooms to get the car keys.  Then I got the keys, went …

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Your husband is cheap

Allison and I were in town running some errands and I went to the drycleaners while she went to the shoe repairman (I had lost a piece of sole/heel running around from flight to flight last weekend). I asked Allison to ask the shoe repairman to fix the shoe.  But …

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Next stop: Denton, TX

We still have the stereo I had in college almost 20 years ago (maybe even in high school).  It has lived in (perhaps Tulsa, OK), Philadelphia, New York City, Burlingame, Belmont, Palo Alto and San Carlos, and next stop: Denton, TX. We’re moving to Denton!  Allison will do a post …

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13 hours!

Allison slept 13 hours last night!  🙂 (the prior night we took a red-eye coming back from vacationing in Hawaii and when we arrived she pretty much went straight to teaching the first class of the summer session to a group of 20 teachers).  (I wonder when she’ll be convinced …

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